a place to store my junk
I received this AMRAM-16 512k memory / ram expansion for Amiga 500 series inside an Amiga I purchased of ebay. The Amiga has really bad battery corrosion damage on the board and I am going to refurbish that as part of a separate project. This card was not working when I tested it in another […]
A while ago I picked up this modem and I have finally got around to digging a little deeper and in particular scanning the documentation for archive. So it seems the device was supplied by R. A. Sadler (G1SFK) in may 1989. In the letter supplied with the kit it mentions “if yours is of […]
My clone of Simon was (almost) ready in time for Christmas, I am delighted with the finished article. Conclusion It was a hugely rewarding experience, forcing me to dust off a few skills I had not used since I was a child and the opportunity to learn something new. While it took longer than I expected […]
One of the final steps in the process was to enclose this in a case. ABS Plastic Enclosure Originally I intended to use a black ABS plastic case off the shelf. I found these cases online or a few pounds and thought they would be perfect. However when I drilled them, the cuts looked untidy […]
Based on the schematic I used I set about gathering the parts I will need to construct the final game. Shopping List Buttons & Switches 4 x 28mm LED illuminated arcade buttons (ebay) 1x 20mm power on / off switch (RS components) Components 3 x 220ohm resistors 1 x 120ohm resistor 1 x 560ohm resistor 1 […]
The LPC810 is a microcontroller from NXP, an ARM Cortex M0+ based microcontroller. NXP provide a dedicated IDE MCUXpresso which is based on Eclipse and is really easy to set up. The IDE is completely free but you need to register at their site in order tow download it. NXP main site can be found at https://www.nxp.com/ […]
My schematic was very similar to the one suggested by https://www.hwhardsoft.de/english/projects/simon-says/ with some minor changes related to the voltage regulator. Because I intended to get the PCB manufactured I needed to get some PCB design software. I used a piece of software called Fritzing which can be downloaded from fritzing.org for free. Once installed, learning to […]
When I starting doing some research I found one hundred and one Simon games for Arduino, but I also found this link which used the LPC810. https://www.hwhardsoft.de/english/projects/simon-says/ This was appealing because I had never used the LPC810 micro controller, and this would be something interesting to learn about , however I had visualised something a little […]
As a child I loved electronic games, and one of the first I remember playing was Simon made by Milton Bradley Electronics (MB Electronics) Details about the original game can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game) I own one of the original Simon games, which is still in perfect working order and boxed. Simon was a game my […]
